Improved metalgic solution for coating iron and steel



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ALSON ArLOTHROP, OF NEPONSET, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 97 ,417, dated November 30, 1869.

- IMPROVED -METALLIC SOLUTION FOR COATING- IRON AND STEEL.

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vBe it known that I, ALSON A. LOTHROP, of Neponat, in the county of Norfolk, and'State of Massachusetts, have invented a new Solution for Coating Iron and. Steel; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention has for its object to provide a rapid and economical means of coating iron and steel; and consists in immersing the article to be coated in a solution of sulphate of copper or blue vitriol and water, with the addition of tin.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried it out. v I

I make a solution, composed of sulphate of copper or blue vitriol and water, to which I add ti'n, reduced to-thin scales or. minute particles, so that it may be readily acted-upon and united with the copper contained in the solution, thus forming apreparation into which the articles to be coated are dipped, (they havimmediately washed andid ried,. which completes the 7 operation.

Claim. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A solution, composed of the ingredients set forth,

for coating ironor steel.

ALSON A. LOTHROP.

Witnesses:

N. W. STEARNS,

P. 'E. TESGHEMACHER. 

